?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
THOMAS NAST "The home market fallacy." Political cartoon, 1888. 546x394 mm; 21 1/2x15 1/2 inches. Pen and ink on board. Signed "Th: Nast" in lower right image.
This large and detailed drawing focuses on the tariff issue. At the left, an artisan and a farmer stand, staring at the figure of Uncle Sam, whose distended belly protrudes before him, resting in a wheelbarrow pushed by the exhausted national symbol. The Capitol can be seen in the background, and on the wall behind the artisan and farmer appear quotations from Cleveland and Blaine on the tariff issue as well as the maxim: "By an Act of Congress, Sixty millions of People will have to pay for and swallow a Home Market."
Source: Sotheby's auction catalog, New York, October 31, 1984.
